Utilizing Emerging Technologies for Construction Safety Risk Mitigation

Okpala, Ifeanyi; Nnaji, Chukwuma; Karakhan, Ali A.

doi:10.1061/(asce)sc.1943-5576.0000468

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“…Articles were extracted from academic databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. Given the emergent nature of academic research on WSDs [5], the researchers complemented academic articles with the grey literature on WSDs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This indicates that management and FWs are more comfortable with smartphone-based wearables. The preference for smartphones could be due to the reported resistance workers have against putting on additional PPEs or carrying additional devices [5,11]. The second and third most preferred WSDs (in terms of WSDs ranked #1) for FWs was the smart hard hat and smart vest.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Existing methods used for detecting hazards or monitoring the safety behaviors of workers and the working environment have proven to be inadequate due to the level of subjectivity involved. In an effort to enhance safety performance in construction, researchers and industry practitioners have reported that the application of safety technologies within various phases of construction projects has the potential to significantly improve the safety and health of construction workers [2][3][4][5]. These technologies include exoskeletons, wearable sensing devices (WSDs), camera network systems, building information modeling, unmanned aerial vehicles, onsite task-specific robots, artificial intelligence, and immersive technologies (augmented and virtual reality).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The recent advancement in wearable technologies and big data technologies provides an accessible way to collect and transform safety and health data in real-time, which has great potential to improve safety performance by reducing injury-related risks [13]. Although studies posit that WSDs have huge potential to reduce injuries and fatalities and have recently started gaining attention [10,14], the existing literature suggests that the actual adoption, implementation, and extended use of the technologies in the construction industry have been slow [5,15]. The extended use of technologies in the construction industry is a complex phenomenon, impacted by multiple industry-specific variables.…”

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Wearable Sensing Devices: Towards the Development of a Personalized System for Construction Safety and Health Risk Mitigation

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Wearable sensing devices (WSDs) are increasingly helping workers stay safe and healthy in several industries. However, workers, especially in the construction industry, have shown some aversion towards the use of WSDs due to their ability to capture specific information that may be considered personal and private. However, this revered information may provide some critical insight needed by management to plan and optimize worksite safety and support technology adoption in decision making. Therefore, there is a need to develop personalized WSD systems that are mutually beneficial to workers and management to ensure successful WSD integration. The present study aims to contribute to knowledge and practice by filling this critical gap using insight from 330 construction workers with experience using WSDs. The results from this study indicate that all 11 WSD functions identified through this study play a vital role in improving worker safety and health and that approximately two out of three workers are open to sharing the physiological and environmental information captured using these WSDs with their management. However, functions for detecting workers’ proximity to workplace hazards, specifically energized electrical materials, toxic gas, and fire/smoke, were the most critical functions that had mutual value to workers and management. Finally, the present study proposed and evaluated a phased personalized WSD system that should encourage successful WSD integration.

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“…Several of these applications have tools for evaluating safety at the construction field. The common factor among almost all safety related applications is the off-line feature which consider construction as a user environment, this off-line feature facilitate it is working in construction site where there is no availability of certain connection to the internet [3]. This feature means that enabling the off-line mode device collecting data and documenting reports.…”

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Technology role in safety management of Iraqi construction projects

2021

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Iraqi construction industry is not away from high number of injuries and fatalities, to control this problem, Mobile Application Technologies (MATS), might offer a promising solution. Improved risk management will increase the productivity of the construction companies which might resulted in enhancing Iraqi national economy. This research addressed the most current used MATS in managing OSH in the construction projects, and highlighted the most benefits and limitations of using these technologies in the field of Iraqi construction projects. This aim achieved by conducting a comprehensive study of the related literature, by analysing a questionnaire response of 98 construction project managers, who are working in a small and medium sized company, BIM and WSDS were identified as the most current used MATS in the Iraqi construction projects, But with a low rate of occurrence about 25%. ’Eliminate hazard during the design phase’ and ’Help visualize hazard’ are the most two benefits of MATS with a rate of occurrence about 75%. However, ’Extra costs associated with technology’, ’Little or no government regulations for use’ are the most two limited factors of using MATS in OSH management in the Iraqi construction projects. In this research the suggestion for the future research has introduced.

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Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

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2021

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Construction has been significantly affected by COVID‐19 yet is critical to the post‐COVID economic recovery. Specifically, construction needs to be constantly aware of safety and risk balanced with timely project delivery. Guidance for COVID‐19 must therefore be implemented in a way that reflects working practice and pressures. There is, however, a potential knowledge gap regarding the practical feasibility and impact of applying COVID‐19 measures within construction, made more difficult by factors such as the temporary nature of projects and complex working arrangements. This article presents a commentary on safe construction during, and beyond, COVID‐19, covering the human factors challenges and practicalities of implementing COVID‐19 measures. We observe that while guidance is strong on risk management, understanding of how best to implement this guidance is not yet stable. Also, care must be taken that implementing guidance does not detract from general safety, which is also challenged by increased pressures on delivery arising from COVID‐19. There may, however, be opportunities for safer working practice arising from new awareness of health, hygiene, and safety risk. The role of safety leadership is overlooked in guidance yet is vital to ensure safe application of COVID‐19 working practices. The key message is that COVID‐19 needs to be integrated and promoted within a general risk management approach, in part because this takes account of differing priorities regarding safety risks, rather than overly focussing on COVID‐19, and also because the effectiveness of COVID‐19 mitigations can be amplified by integration with pre‐existing safety processes.

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Utilizing Emerging Technologies for Construction Safety Risk Mitigation

Cited by 96 publications

References 70 publications

Wearable Sensing Devices: Towards the Development of a Personalized System for Construction Safety and Health Risk Mitigation

Wearable Sensing Devices: Towards the Development of a Personalized System for Construction Safety and Health Risk Mitigation

Technology role in safety management of Iraqi construction projects

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

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